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Thirukkural 555

Chapter 56: கொடுங்கோன்மை (The Cruel Sceptre) · Wealth

Kural 555

அல்லற்பட்டு ஆற்றாது அழுதகண் ணீரன்றே
செல்வத்தைத் தேய்க்கும் படை

Allarpattu Aatraadhu Azhudhakan Neerandre
Selvaththaith Theykkum Patai

His people's tears of sorrow past endurance, are not theySharp instruments to wear the monarch's wealth away

Meaning

Will not the tears, shed by a people who cannot endure the oppression which they suffer (from their king), become a saw to waste away his wealth ?

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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